From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 21:35:08 EST
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De: "Christopher John Fynn" <cfynn@gmx.net>
> It's plain silly to expect support for every Unicode character to be
present on
> every platform and in every application "right out of the box" soon after
> characters are officially encoded in the Unicode Standard, especially
> characters for scripts have complex rendering requirements.
How about after a few years?
> Fonts for some
> scripts can take a long time to make properly,
Well, some fonts would be better than none (and they have to be made so that
the Unicode standard be printed).
> and then they have to be tested.
> Layout engines may need updating and these have to be thoroughly tested
too.
> Then applications need to be updated to handle proper line breaking, word
> selection and so on.
>
> Things like math formulas may and music notation have their own special
layout
> requirements -
This - I believe - is not expected from any application purporting to
support Unicode.
P. A.
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